Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-03-19

home So%s' q in E sy her associates =" v.
% "9 By all most felici- hi
maltreatment and abuse, will p.ra hn- st
who are trampled on" And wht-, oil
forgets that two O'Clock morning scene :,
the stroke of the rufiian on the mouth, =
the bowling of the unwashed crowd, then +
will forget you and me in the injustices o
life that may be inflicted upon us.
Some of you want deliverance from your
troubles, God knows you have enough OF
them. Physical troubles; domestic troublesi
spiritual troubles; financial troubles. You
have been gathering them up, some perhaps
for five, or six, or seven years, and you have
divided them into two classes: Those you can
talk about and those you cannot talk about;
and as those griefs are the most grinding
and depressing which you cannot mention
YOU get coincidence for the things you can
speak of, while you get no coincidence for the
things that YOU cannot In your school days
YOU learned how to bound the States, and
could tell what rivers and lakes and noun
tains ran through them. If you were asked
to-day to bound your worldly estate
north by trouble, and on the south
bv trouble. and on ths east by
trouble, and on the west by trouble, while
rivers Of tears and lakes of woe, and noun
tains Of disaster run through it. What are
YOU going to do with your troubless Why do
you not go the theater and have your mind
absorbed in some tragedy "Oh," you say,
ieyervthing have seen on the boards of the
stage Is tame compared with the tragedy of
nv own life!" Well, then, why do you not
20 to your trunks and closets and
gather up all the mementoes of your
! departed friends and put them
out of sight, and take down their pictures
from the wall and put in the frame harvest
scene or some bright and gay spectaclet
"Ah," you say, ''if / should remove all these
mementoes Of my departed friends, that
would not take away the killing pictures that
/ are hanging in the gallery of my own heart.
Well, if that does not help you. why not
! plunge into society and try to wash off in
worldly gayetIes all these assoilments Of the
soull "Oh,n YOU say, " | have tried thatl
| but how can hear other children laugh when
my children are silentl How can see other
happy families when my own happy family
| is broken up. Trouble, troubled" But dc
YOU gain anything by brooding over your
! misfortunes, by sitting down in adark room,
by a comparison of the sweet past with the
| bitter present! " No; that makes things
worse But have to tell you to-day thai
the Christ of all sympathy presents Himself
Is there anybody in this house that car
get along without sympathyi do not think
would live day without it. And yet ther'
are a great many who seem to get alont
without divine sympathy. Their fortune il
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the insurance company, takes wings aud file
away. They button up penniless pocket
They sit down in penury where ono
they had afluence, and yet there
no Jesus to stand by them and say
"Oh, man, there are treasures that neve
fail, in banks that nsver break Twill TAX
care Of YOU / own the cattle on thousan'
hills, and you shall never want They hav
no such divine Saviour to say that to them
do not know how they get along, -. Deaf De It
household. One less fountain OF joy am
laughter. Two hands less to be bus
all day. Two feet less to boun
through the hall. Shadow after shado'
following through that household, yet n
Jesus to stand there and say 81 am tn
shepherd That lamb is not lost. / took it o.
the cold mountains. AIS we'll" Oh. ca
you tell me the mysteryi Can you solve u
Tell me how it is that men and women wit
aches, and pains, and sorrows, and loSSe'
and exasperations, and bereavement ca
get along without a sympathizing Christ
/ cannot understand it.
But / come here 10 say this morning tina
n you really want divine sympathy you ca
have it, There are two or three passages {
Scripture that throh with pity and kindne
and love "Cast thy burden on the Lord an
He will sustain thee Come unto Ie q
We who are weary and heavy laden and
will give you rest" oh, there are green pa
lures where the Heavenly Shepherd leads u
sick and wounded Of the flock! When all Il
other trees OF the orchard fail. God has on
tree OF fruit for His dear children. Thong
the organ walls out requiem, there com
afterward a song, a chant, an anthem. a pa
tIe-march. coronation, a victory. Do yc
not want the sympathy OF Jesusi offer
this morning to every man ard woman
this house: you need Him. oh, how muS
you need Him.
There was . chaplain in the army wound.
s-.a Death, Whils lxsrs taere On the DE-